Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...
Something has happened, said Dr. Namias, to the "planetary air current" the great, sinuous river of high-altitude wind that sweeps around the earth in temperate latitudes. It flows in waves like a shaken rope, and the position and size of the waves is a controlling factor in Northern Hemisphere weather...
...last week that tuna and sardines, considered warm-water fish, are now being caught in the North Sea. Dr. Günther Böhnecke, the institute's chief, suspects that the fish have extended their range northward because the North Sea, like many other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, is slowly growing warmer...
...same time to continue that relationship which is the sacrament of unity between the spouses . . ." ¶ A $400,000 Protestant Radio and TV Center was formally dedicated at Atlanta, Ga. to "its task of carrying the word of Christianity to the world." Owned jointly by the Methodist, Presbyterian (Northern and Southern), United Lutheran and Episcopal Churches, and by Emory University, Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary, the center will send religious radio programs to several hundred stations in the U.S. as well as the Armed Forces Radio Network. ¶ Southern Presbyterians (756,886 members), known officially as the Presbyterian...
...write as I feel, guided by impulse and thinking of humanity," he says. "I don't think of history, posterity, fashion or politics." Villa-Lobos is breathing much urban, northern-hemisphere air these days (after his U.S. concerts he is off for a Continental tour next month), but he is still breathing deeply. At week's end he was composing furiously between concerts, is half way through his Eleventh Symphony. His total output to date: a dazzling 2,000-plus compositions...